Circle Art Programs
Maria Alicia Sallaberry
Multidisciplinary visual artist, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She graduated as a Professor of Visual Arts with a specialization in Painting at the National University of La Plata.
Her work distrusts the real and the obvious, exploring the processes of thought and memory.
She is interested in contradictions and builds metaphors that address the unfathomable human condition through nature.
She works from digital photography, alternative photographic processes, painting, drawing and installations, developing the interaction and dialogue of different languages of the visual arts, in permanent exploration.
Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in different cities of her country, Peru and Spain.
In addition, she has participated in the Meeting of Author Photography Books in Florianópolis, Brazil; in the publication "Malvinas" edited by Trama; in the publication "Gente de campo", edited by Oscar Marzol (2024).
Throughout her career, she has received recognition in drawing, painting and photography salons. Currently, she studies Contemporary Artistic Photography at Plataforma Rara and conducts an art workshop with Ana Sanchez Zinny.
Stone and feather (NAT Art Residence (04/2024)
In the murmur of the sea and the whisper of the wind, the primal game emerges: a game that is born from the intimate connection with nature, without limits or instructions, only in the freedom to create.
This project dives into that corner of memory, where children's hands transformed leaves, stones, feathers and branches into imaginary worlds.
It is there, in the essence of simplicity, where art merges with nature and playful objects emerge as bridges between the earth and imagination.
Here it is not just about recreating games, but about resurrecting moments, rescuing moments that unite generations, recovering and enabling my inner child to immerse herself in the game, where imagination and curiosity flourish. And in her I summon the girl that was my grandmother, my mother, and my daughter, weaving a bond that connects the past and the present, and frees us through creation.
The materials I collect from the earth are not just objects, they are symbols of time and transformation. The stone, firm and resistant, and the feather, soft and delicate, intertwine as witnesses of history, reflecting the strength and fragility that we inhabit.
Lyrics of the song in the video
Stone and feather
You are daughter of the daughter
in the thread of foam
that leaves, that leaves the mist.
You are stone,
You are feather.
You have a hat
made of old cardboard
That tastes, that tastes like sweet alfajor.
You are stone,
You are feather.
You wear scribbles
And on your skin
you draw, you draw paper boats.
You are stone,
You are feather.
You keep your secrets
inside a fish
That swims, that always swims upside down.
You are stone,
You are feather,
You search in your hands
for rivers of crystal
And a sky, a sky to paint.
You are stone,
You are feather.
Daughter of the Daughter
fly to the moon.
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Love Ritual (Traces - 07/2023)
Love ritual is transition from one way of being to another.
It is a celebration and healing ritual, it is a symbolic experience for survival, and finally it is the loving process of reconciliation with oneself.
Poems in the video
Love ritual
When the day reveals
the hidden shadows,
and the fire shelters
to the beating heart.
When the flowers
whisper their secrets,
and the birds
encourage you to fly.
Love,
When the tread is footprint
and the skin territory,
my presence
hug my body.
And there I am...
simply being.
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